AI Silicon, Analog CAD Engineer

🕒 October 1

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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Unconventional AI

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11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔧 Hardware

⚡ Energy

Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • Energy

Unconventional AI is rethinking the foundations of a computer to optimize energy efficiency for AI. Founded by experts in AI systems, analog circuits, computing theory, and neuroscience, the company aims to bring biology-scale efficiency to artificial intelligence by redesigning computing architecture and hardware to reduce power consumption for AI workloads.

📋 Description

• Drive the full installation, configuration, and integration of CAD environments for analog and digital teams • Develop agentic AI-based analog workflows to improve productivity and design quality • Manage installation and version control of foundry-provided PDKs, standard cell libraries, and IO libraries • Set up environment variables, configuration files, and shared library structures for the design team • Configure schematic entry and layout editor environments, including bindkeys, display settings, layer definitions, and PCELL integration • Create and validate scripts for final GDSII streamout • Interface with the foundry throughout the tapeout process, including tapeout forms and job views • Help evaluate new CAD tools • Manage revision control systems for library check-in/check-out procedures and visibility across designer libraries • Create documentation for installation procedures, environment settings, and GDS, LVS, and DRC run instructions • Provide knowledge transfer to the internal design team

🎯 Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field • 10+ years of industry experience in analog or mixed-signal CAD engineering and EDA tool administration • Expertise in installing and validating foundry-provided PDKs and standard cell libraries • Deep understanding of schematic, layout, and simulation setup across different process corners and temperatures • Proficiency in setting up and debugging backend verification rule decks (DRC, LVS, ERC) for advanced nodes • Strong scripting skills in Tcl, Python, or Perl to automate design flows and data analysis • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience writing comprehensive flow documentation and providing knowledge transfer to design teams • Hands-on experience creating automated flows bridging Verilog RTL, synthesis, and physical layout back into an analog design environment • Experience administering EDA tools deployed in SaaS or cloud compute environments, optimizing license allocation and job scheduling • Familiarity with state of the art AI tools to accelerate chip design

🏖️ Benefits

• Best-in-class health benefits • 401k matching • Truly unlimited PTO • Complimentary meals in the Mountain View office • Massive ownership and an outsized opportunity to drive change